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Centre for Aesthetic, Moral and Political Philosophy

Centre for ethics and metaethics

This year’s research seminars

Research seminars are held during term-time. Full details are listed on the School events listings.

  • 7th Oct: Joseph Bowen

  • 12th Oct: Kimberley Ferzan (U Penn)

  • 21st Oct: Gerald Lang

  • 4th Nov: Jonas Haeg (Stockholm)

  • 18th Nov: Ali Toop

  • 2nd Dec: Erik Zhang

  • 27th Jan: Anna Klieber (Cardiff)

  • 3rd Feb: Katie Zhou

  • 24th Feb: Rob Simpson (UCL)

  • 3rd March: Víctor Durà-Vilà

  • 10th March: Steve Finlay (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

  • 17th March, 3-6pm: PGR Day: Georgie Armitage, Sara Gorea, and Isobel Logan

  • 21st April: Léa Bourguignon (Cambridge)

Previous research seminars 2025/26

  • 8th Oct: Kal Kalewold
  • 22nd Oct: Jeff McMahan (Oxford)
  • 30th Oct: Niko Kolodny (Berkely)          
  • 19th Nov: Derek Matravers (Open)
  • 28th Jan: Cécile Fabre (Oxford)
  • 11th Feb: Sophie Keeling (UNED, Madrid)
  • 25th Feb: PGR Day: Lucy Shanahan and Jon Hawkins
  • 4th March: Colette Olive
  • 11th March: PGR Day: Tiago Carneiro da Silva and Kaj Zeller
  • 25th March: Alba Curry
  • 13th May: Elsa Kugelberg (Oxford)  (joint session with CLSR)

Recent workshops and conferences

  • June 2026: ‘Risk and Uncertainty in Ethics’, with Emma Curran (Oxford), Weng Kin San (LSE), Oskari Sivula & Jaakko Hirvelä (Helsinki), Hilary Greaves (Oxford), Claire Field (Zurich), and Aidan Penn (Fribourg)
  • June 2025: ‘Foundations of Morality Workshop’, with Samuel Dishaw (Université Catholique de Louvain), Julia Driver (University of Texas - Austin/St Andrews), Jizefien Gielen (KU Leuven), Meradjuddin Khan Oidermaa (Stockholm University), Fabienne Peter (University of Warwick), and Michael Smith (Princeton University).

Previous research seminars: 2024-25

Visiting speakers 2025/26: Jeff McMahan (Oxford), Niko Kolodny (Berkely), Derek Matravers (Open), Cécile Fabre (Oxford), Sophie Keeling (UNED, Madrid), and Elsa Kugelberg (Oxford)  (joint session with CLSR).

Visiting speakers 2024/25: Romy Eskens (Utrecht), Tom Angier (Cape Town), Simone Gubler (Brown), Karamvir Chadha (Durham), and Rahul Kumar (Queens).Other events

In May 2016, we hosted the annual public Mangoletsi Lectures, by Rae Langton (Cambridge) on the theme of 'Doing and Undoing Things with Words'. We have also organised two major international conferences, ‘The Moral Significance of Intentions’  (June 2014) and ‘Themes from the Ethics of Bernard Williams’ (July 2009). The latter conference led to a volume of articles, Luck, Value, and Commitment: Themes from the Ethics of Bernard Williams (ed. Ulrike Heuer and Gerald Lang, Oxford University Press 2012).

In addition to the ongoing research seminar, we have also organised or supported numerous other workshops and conferences: